Posted 26 June 2013

PlayStation Store update: Hotline Miami, Borderlands 2 DLC out today

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Leading the way this week is extraordinary old-school shoot ’em up, Hotline Miami, releasing for both PS3 and PS Vita. It’s a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat. Set in an alternative 1989 Miami, you will assume the role of a mysterious antihero on a murderous rampage against the shady underworld at the behest of voices on your answering machine.

Fans of the ‘Merc with a Mouth’ should look forward to Deadpool on Friday for PS3. Featuring the titular character himself with various other Marvel drop-ins and fourth-wall breaking humour our man in red is known for, Deadpool is your go-to fix this month for comic book gaming.

See below for the rest of this week’s new releases.

New PlayStation Network content

Content may be added or removed, or move dates – please stay tuned to your weekly Store Update for the most up to date listings. Listed savings are approximate, based on SRP excluding Special Offer pricing and should be considered as a guide only.

PS3 games

Blood Knights (Trial available)Price: £11.99/€14.99PEGI: 16Availability: Not available in New Zealand

hi fred Jawad and i need your helpafter i change my e-mail address of my ID i don’t receive any promotions message from SCEE and inside psvita (i miss free credit for skype on vita )i only receive message if i buy something or add fund to my accountmy old E-mail hackedcan you help methank you

@seanoc1, Chungles and LordBeloved:Muramasa Rebirth is handled by a US publisher which is Aksys Games. And the bad news is, they do not have a EU office, unless the developer can find a EU publisher, you’ll know but for now, I’m afraid you’ll have to import. =\

Spartacus Legends… Storm… Just a couple of recent example from a ridiculously large list of games that have arrived in one region long before another.Other companies providing a similar service are not affected by this issue, so why are SONY?And will this frankly amateurish practice continue with the PS4?

Is there any ETA on when R&C Gladiator/ Deadlocked will be available?It was announced last September for a “end of the year” release! 9 months later and we actually have less information about the game than the day it was announced!Also, any updates on Oddworld new n tasty? So cant wait to play that, still play the original every single day on my way to work. One of the, if not the, best game ever made!

O, and on the topic of PS1 classics on sale now is there any chance of getting the Loony Tunes games on the PSN store? Really dying to play sheep raider and bugs and taz time busters again, and its murder trying to track down a working copy of these games!Apocalypse would be nice too, such a awesome game.

Also any ETA on when the SP DLC for TLOU will be available? Absolutely loved the game to death so sad its ended, it cant end I’m not ready to leave it yet!:(

Hi Jawad. Just trying to bring to your attention that some of the later LBP Karting costumes can’t be accessed if you bought the LBP2/Vita versions. Noticing the Street Fighter whole set and Marvel Pack 6 whole set (if you check the file sizes between versions you’ll notice as well). Also, Sly & Bentley’s pack Karting unlock key is missing.

On another hand, I’ve got a question: I purchased Sly: Thieves in Time on the Store for PS3, and got the EU1 file (ENG/SPA/POR/FRA) for Vita. I’m seeing people noticing that if you got the Disc release and used Disc Benefits, you got more languages. While the Store recognizes it’s purchased and I can download the file from the Store front and all, I was wondering if it’s intended to just give me 1 Vita file instead of multiple.

Thanks for pointing this out. Regarding your second paragraph, that’s the way the products are packaged (set up). It should give you the option to pick the language you need (or sometimes give a default).

really would love your team to bring us Destruction derby 2 and destruction derby raw as ps classics, you guys at sony already hold the license for these so theres no license issues here. If it comes down to coding issues then would you guys consider importing them as u.s. game versions? You managed to give us Destruction Derby so please bring us the rest.

Hey jawed good update. Noticed that the us store has hogs of war ps1 classic any chance of seeing this on the eu store anytime soon? I would gladly pay a lotta money for that great game. Hope for a reply cheers.

Did the Pink Knight DLC for Castle Crashers ever was released outside the initial countries that were listed in 2011?

The quote from the behemoth site at the time said “On December 7th, 2011, the beloved Pink Knight will be castle crashin’ his or her way to players for PSN Europe (SCEE)! Unfortunately our friends in Australia, Germany and New Zealand will have to wait a little longer as we have to figure out some region specific items to finalize our pink friend for your countries.”

I was wondering, what ever happened after that? Cause I’m looking at the Australia PSN and there isn’t anything listed other than the game itself.

Can I get an update on the situation? Was there no interest in getting the DLC over here or was it mentioned in an update that I’m not aware of?

Thanks for replying Jawad. On my second paragraph, what I meant, though, was that using the Disc Benefits have, for example, three Vita games. The one I mentioned with 4 languages (EU1) and 2 other files (EU2 (other languages) and EU3 (even more)). While EU1 covers me (English and Spanish), I found it strange, since the Web Store isn’t marking it as bought, but doesn’t allow me to get it either (marked as Free but not available for purchase), hence me asking.

Any news on better avatars? No offence but the avatars that are added every week are shockingly bad. Dull, boring and 99p! Whatever happened to cool ones, game based ones, and all at 21p-ish? Now all there is is that ‘pro-gamer’ stuff and it’s just abysmal.

@cowbanana Whoa, didn’t know you need an app for the Pulse headset! I was actually thinking of buying it, but now I wont! If it’s anything like the YouTube app, SCEE is going to take ages to bring it here…

Thanks for answering, i saw the review’s, and they were poor, but i am intrigued to see how the single player is, some people compare it to Resistance Retribution, and i pretty much liked the campaign of this one.

fred/jawad i know this aint on topic but PLEASE could u help does penrose tackie work for sony or polyphony digital as i have a very question and would like penrose to answer…does penrose have a twitter feed so i can contact him thanks…greatness awaits…btw fred when i read the post about that game based in london u said its ur hometown i thought u was American

@rik_rgz:To be honest, Resistance Retribution is actually a Third-Person Shooter instead of a First-Person Shooter. The PSP game was alright but didn’t mind the frame-rate issues at all. As for Burning Skies, enjoyed the campaign but was too short and then once I finally got CoD Declassfied. I was really disappointed how it came out so I had no choice but to take it back and wait for a decent First Person Shooter alas being KillZone this September which to me looks promising.

You are correct, i meant to say Burning Skies and not Retribution.Anyway thanks for the feedback, it’s probably better to wait for Killzone and only buy CoD if it gets really cheap (or if by miracle it appear’s on IGC)

Second is from the USA blog, do we really have to pay double the price in europe now ? I mean you already scammed “rest of europe” (except UK) on last of us with 13€ currency scam but now double the price ? seriously ? i already noted this in blog comment #2 – no reply.

Can we have a vote on the blog to get a new store team? :D i will be sure to praise the store team tho on the next ps3 game sale with maybe some racing games :)

It has been around 10 months now since Counter-strike: Global Offensive was released for every territory on Xbox 360 and PC, and for all territories….except EU…on PS3.

Can you give us any new information on the release date for this title, beyond the usual “Sorry, no information” that has been given for the past 300 or so days?

If you do not plan to ever release this title, for whatever reason, then it would be good to know. Right now, PS3 players in Europe have been left dangling in a very poor example of customer service from both Sony and Valve. Can we get a line written under the whole topic once and for all?

guess i wont be making friend with the help of Toro’s network this week. Dammit why can’t you just say if it’s coming or not and at least give reasonable expections as to when it’ll arrive rather than dancing round it like no one’s even mentioned it. I read the comment and 70% of the answers you give to people never answer their question so I wonder whats the point of you even coming on here and making so called time to do so when you never really answer a question properly

I forgot I originally checked on the PS3 store not PC. I also forgot how bad the ps3 store was. Couldn’t even enter hotline because after entering Hot,the auto word bs gives no option to enter L. Who thought that was a good idea?

@vonhammer yeah one would think webstore and normal store are the same, but it seems they are not. otherwise i dunno why they would have different prices. Jawad it seems is jumping around, doing a bit of work here, then answering some final fantasy questions in the other blog post.. i dont know whats going on here… or why the usa blog never has such problems ? i was hoping with the ps4 it would breath new life into sony.

I own the borderlands 2 season pass but when I press the link from the whats new tab it takes me to every add on content viable for borderlands 2 apart from the new assault on dragons keep. How can I get the DLC?

A long time ago we were promised that those who bought R&C QForce would be Motorstorm RC and eventually R&C Gladiator. However many were missed from the sweep as we had not yet played online or registered the disc benefits, fear not though there was to be a second sweep of all those eligible.Is that second sweep ever likely to happen, I registered my disc benefits and played online shortly after the first announcement yet nothing has been done since. Are we to lose out on the offer because the promised second sweep never took place?I have asked before any chance of an answer.

YE SONY HURRY UP WITH STORE UPDATE I WANT TO BUY HOTLINE MIAMI stop playin about & hurry up & add HOTLINE MIAMI (i could do a faster store update then sony could i would add all new stuff within 30 mins) WE WANT HOTLINE MIAMI NOW

i see new this week section ( mi language = nieuw deze week ) u have big mistake i tink .i only see on ps3= watch dog game video,+moto gp game -moto gp dlc where restof new tings ????/ also on pc same + lego legends but where rest ????

if that’s the case Jawad then I would like the guy who made that decision to come on the blog for an interview and explain he reasoning as to why they felt that they shouldn’t release Toro’s Friend Network in Europe. If they are going to make ****ty decisions like that at least have the guts to explain their reasoning.

If you don’t have one, just creat a US account, go grab the app on the store and then you can do whatever you want with it in your EU account. Work like a charm for me, and it even got updated a while back no problems ;)

No ratchet:gladiatorPSN Store update messed up with all content missing apart from moto gpSelective deafness (blindness?) In responding to complaints/commentsMicrosoft screwed up with drm but instead of going to buy a ps4 I think I might just not bother and scee and sony will keep messing up like they do with the ps3 and I just don’t trust them.

@145:I swear this is getting ridiculous. Everytime we report a bug on the Stores. It gets ignored ALL THE TIME! I’m still very angry that they still didn’t even fix the blank icons on the Vita store. I mean 18:45 now and still NO NEW CONTENT and even the front dashboard is completely broken. Hotline Miami keeps looping back, Magic 2014 CANNOT be selected for a dumb reason and now Terraria is gone hidden. CUT ME A BREAK!

This has probebly been already answered but when will the Borderlands 2 Tiny Tina DLC being released properly on the store as its there but when you click on it its not there and I typed it in and nothing and I’ve also used the browser store as well and still nothing so any news/update on that would be much appreciated – Thanks Declan

When is DAYZ out ?.. was sure i read today on a site, guess it must of been Sparticus, for US store, been playing a lot of State of Decay, but wish it was on psn instead, how Any xbox er can use that contoller All the time is just beyond me, can’t stand them, SoD isn’t The most polished indie i played, but i can live with that, the real-time journals, map and other necessary distractions are my worst gripe about it.. Anyway i just hope DAYZ will be here soon.. got TLoU (finally) yesterday, managed to get Both pre-order packs with it as well, So mad at store for removing them so quick, like i mentioned on blog-roundup If Only they were as efficient at fixing stuff too.. so might start that tonight, no real rush though, may check crazy tiny tee’s dlc out first, IF it gets a slot.

@ doodlecrazy.where you been, ms have Totally turnaround on both DRM, having to sign in daily And the mad 2nd hand games policy they spoke of. I am Very pleased as well, i mean imagine a SCE-e without any real competition, horrible thought indeed, ?.

For all the things Sony have been great on the last year or two, It’s surprising how bad the PS Store still is, Inconsistent updates, Missing Content, It sometimes takes so long to load up I forget why I’m on it. They really need to overhaul how it works. I WANT TO GIVE YOU MY MONEY!!! I want to buy Hotline Miami, even though I have it on steam, and maybe a PSOne sale game. The store is by far the least satisfying part of the playstation experience/brand.

10am drink coffee11am breakfast15h copy + paste usa blog and change some prices and remove a ton of discounts and stuff so europe gets nothing and scammed on currency conversions16h write 5 or 6 blog comments and call it a day17h complain to co-workers about crazy blog commenters and call it a day

Just echoing what has already been reported by others: Magic 2014 and the Tiny Tina DLC for Borderlands 2 are unavailable for purchase, even though they show up as advertisements in the “latest games” section. Do please fix.

@Grimmy11Indeed, just last weekend I described that SCEE’s store is by far the weakest link in Sony’s chain. Yet it seems that they have not the slightest intention to ever make a real and substantial progress.

I just tweeted @yosp if he knows about the standards that SCEE’s store team expects us to accept all the time. It simply feels oh so wrong and lacklustre.On the one side you have guys as Cerny, Yoshida, Ahmad & Co who obviously put a lot of effort to make us enjoy Playstation and then you have … the European store. Completely different story.

Come on. No need to get personal here. Jawad does a great job on this blog, and it’s not his job to make the deals. Yes, we seem to get less stuff than other regions, but to personally attack one blog poster is just out of order.

How are we suppose to buy, when the content is missing and only icons are showed? Is it no enough that we pay more that the USA players (to scee 5$ = 5€) AND that we have to wait between 24 to 48 hours more that the USA players for the content AND that we receive far less content that the USA players and now this?

From within Borderlands 2 i was able to download the Tiny Tina DLC.First i’ve got enumorous errors about enumerating when i went to the downloadable content section within the game but finally it worked.

From within the game when i clicked download for the TT DLC it went out of the game to the direct downloadpage of the dlc.

@audi2k200 its humor, not meant personal. come on you saw the last blog post where by mistake a moderator comment by jawad was stuck at the end of the blog, so it looked always as if he had just replied to the last blog comment? that went on for days and is probably still there. There is so many bugs in the euro store, how come the USA store is fine?

Intention isnt to make fun of anyone but obviously in the euro team they arent capable of getting the job done or wanting to. Like there is a sale in the euro store since a week for stuff like bf3 premium, some sports games, was it ever even mentioned here? Hows that a great job. I am sure there is enough jobless people in UK who would L-O-V-E to work for sony day and night for free and get the job done.

for all who want tiny tiny dlc for borderlands and a season pass holder just load the game up and click on the dowloadable content menu if it keeps comming up failed to enumerate keep trying i eventualy got it to work and am now downloading the dlc its 1691mb not to sure if it works for non season pass holders

@ aditrax21yeah, it’s defo getting a console release, i read interview last week by DAYZ’s devs, basically slanting ms for Not allowing them to release it on xbox, Unless they get a publisher, brilliant article, even though it was on a ms site he more or less labelled ms’s next-gen as xbone.. in replies underneath article it was made clear DAYZ Is coming to PS3, it also all looked like it’s a sooner rather than later release.. i really hope i read everything correct, as it looks like The indie game of year, for me anyways.

I tried to buy Hotline Miami today and cannot. :( It is shown on the Welcome screen of PSN Store, but when I click on it, nothing happens. Anyone else has this problem?(using English store, despite being in Poland)